Sacred Sites of India: Style Brainstorming

Topic. My storybook will be about stories relating to different sacred sites of Hinduism within India. My goal is to find four different sites with relations to four different deities and hopefully from four geographically distinct locations within India. One story I feel like I should include is the story of Bhagiratha and Ganga as it tells of the Ganges river. Another is the story of the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple. There are hundred if not thousands of temples and other sacred sites across India, so I don't think there would be any shortage of stories to choose from. The only difficult thing would be deciding on which version of a story to use. My criteria for each story is that each should focus on a different place and a different god or goddess.
Bibliography:
1."Bhagiratha and Ganga" from The Great Indian Epics by John Campbell Oman, written in 1894
2. "Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple" from Pilgrim shrines of India: mythology, archaeology, history and art (Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian & Sufi) by Amar Nath Khanna (2003).

Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple; Source: wikimedia

Possible Styles

1. Stories as Tour Guides
This one could be really fun. I would set the storybook up like an advert from a travel agency and each story could be like a different place in the brochure. This would allow me to really highlight the other environs surrounding each site, and could allow for a really fun modern take on all of the stories. One aspect of this that I don't like is that it would be very easy to cheapen the cultural significance held by these stories, but maybe that could be played up to be satirized.

2. Scrapbook of the Gods
This storybook would allow me to tell the stories from the perspective of a god or multiple gods. Because each story involves a deity in some way, I could use this style to give a deeper insight into how the gods and goddesses perceive these stories and how they felt as they were taking place. This could also be something like a bunch of deities meet up to talk about and remember their shared stories with potential conflicts in the details. 

3. Pilgrimage across India
This story would follow one traveler or maybe a small group as they make their way to different sacred sites across India. This would allow me to incorporate the stories of the sites and show the importance they still have for contemporary Indians and Hindus. It might be really interesting to make this story about an American-born Hindu person who is going to India for the first time time and finding his or her roots. 

4. The stories as a newspaper/news broadcast
A lot of sacred sites are actually cities or places within large cities, so it might be fun to tell each story as if it were happening in real time within a city. This would allow for a bit more dynamic retelling of each story and would still logically make sense to cut to different events going on in different parts of the country. This would prevent me from doing stories that happen in chronological relation to each other, but I don't think I was planning on using any like that anyway.